African leaders are putting women front and center of efforts to drive the continent's economic growth through a game-changing fund that invests in women fund managers and also provides technical assistance. The launch of the African Women Leadership Fund (AWLF) will provide capital to both first time and experienced fund
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Renowned venture capitalist, global speaker, author and business mogul Vusi Thembekwayo (pictured) will be in Uganda from Wed 4th to Saturday 7th 2020 for a series of exclusive engagements with Uganda’s business community. Vusi Thembekwayo – also famously known as ‘Vusi’ - has successfully built and transformed businesses in South
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As part of their initiatives to ensure that more Ugandan entrepreneurs emerge as successful applicants in the 2020 Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) entrepreneurship programme, United Bank for Africa- Uganda organized and hosted a free and intensive business training for 70 potential applicants. The training took place on Wednesday 29th January,
Read MoreA Cape Town based startup, www.CreativeCraftingClub.com bridges the gap between entrepreneurship for stay-at-home parents and education for tots-to-tweens. The multifunctional online subscription site offers tried-and-tested creative crafting lesson plans, teaching resources and business acumen for parents, educators and budding entrepreneurs, to kick start their own kids’ creative crafting club in
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Some of the beneficiaries of Uganda Women Entrepreneurship Programme in Rwenzori region showcasing their products It is a public secret that when the National Resistance Army (now National Resistance Movement-NRM) captured power in 1986 after a five-year guerilla war, they inherited an economy that had literally collapsed. Businesses had collapsed
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Pictured above: Isabel dos Santos, Strive Masiyiwa and Aliko Dangote All it took was a new currency in Zimbabwe to wipe out half of Strive Masiyiwa’s net worth. The country’s only billionaire, Masiyiwa built a fortune primarily in telecom. He owns large stakes in two companies that trade on Zimbabwe’s
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Britain’s Prince Harry (pictured) attended a summit for leaders of 21 African countries in London hosted by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday. Harry spoke on Sunday of his unhappiness at being forced to give up his royal duties in a deal with Queen Elizabeth and senior Windsors that will
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The world's billionaires have doubled in the past decade and are richer than 60 percent of the global population, the charity Oxfam said Monday. It said poor women and girls were at the bottom of the scale, putting in “12.5 billion hours of unpaid care work each and every day,”
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The Tony Elumelu Foundation has made strategic changes to the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme Cycle. These changes, which took effect from January 1, 2020, will provide more value across the continent and achieve our mandate to transform the African continent through entrepreneurship. This is one of the announcements heralding the 10th
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Global population is increasing but land remains fixed. This means that the demand for food is set to increase, something that will leave smart agripreneurs wealthy. It is believed that the next generation of billionaires will be from the agribusiness sector and there are many agribusiness enterprises/ideas you can tap
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